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MQA•Foolish New Algorithm? Vote!

Vote please. Simply yes or no. Let’s get a handle on our collective thinking.
The discussions are getting nauseating. Intelligent(?) People are claiming that they can remove part of the music (digits), encode the result for transport over the net, then decode (reassemble) the digits remaining after transportation (reduced bits-only the unnecessary ones removed) to provide “Better” sound than the original recording.
If you feel this is truly about “better sound” - vote Yes.
If you feel this is just another effort by those involved to make money by helping the music industry milk it’s collection of music - vote no.
Lets know what we ‘goners’ think.
P.S. imho The “bandwidth” problem this is supposed to ‘help’ with will soon be nonexistent. Then this “process” will be a ‘solution’ to a non existing problem. I think it is truly a tempest in a teacup which a desperate industry would like to milk for all its worth, and forget once they can find a new way to dress the Emporer. Just my .02

ptss
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jon2020
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+1, ptss.

Once deception is detected, why bother anymore?
Conversely, if one is true in the heart, why bother to deceive?

2 big deceptions exposed :-

1. At Stereophile by JA

2.https://www.computeraudiophile.com/forums/topic/38608-truncating-mqa-files-to-16-bits-and-the-blue-l...

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keithtexas
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Only heard MQA/non MQA a/b demoed one time.  Constellation electronics driving Magico speakers. To my ears, there was a slight preference for the MQA. JMO
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dlcockrum
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Here’s a couple of other revealing stats based on responses from this thread:

1) 100 percent correlation of negative responses from those that have never actually heard the product.
2) 100 percent predictability of 1) above based on the clearly derisive wording of the original post.
3) Zero impact of the positive commentary from those with actual MQA experience on the others’ preconceived negative bias derived without any personal experience.

I think this is known as a “bust”?

Dave
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jon2020
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"Only heard MQA/non MQA a/b demoed one time. Constellation electronics driving Magico speakers. To my ears, there was a slight preference for the MQA. JMO"

No public demo has been done comparing an MQA track played through an MQA dac with a non-MQA hires version of the same track played through a non-MQA dac. 

Such a comparison if done will eliminate completely the potential of MQA code in a single dac unit to mess up non-MQA files, as pointed out by JA at Stereophile.

This messing with a non-MQA file will result in an MQA file always sounding better than a non-MQA file from the single unit MQA dac.

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